Hair Donation Ottawa

Hair Donation Ottawa is an annual, non-profit, cancer research fundraiser where people raise pledges for donating their hair and/or shaving their heads & they receive a wash, cut and style or shave.

This year, 2015, marks our fifth annual event and will take place on Sunday, April 26, 2015. The event will run from 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM, hosted at the updated Algonquin College Salon & Spa located at:1385 Woodroffe Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario K2G 1V8A Building, Room #A112

Proceeds go towards:

Adult and Childhood Cancer Research at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and The Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) Research Institute.

An annual $500 Bursary to a financially challenged Algonquin College Hair Stylist Program student to help offset their tuition fees and/or text books.

All 6"+ hair donations go to 360-Hair...a Canadian company providing free wigs for financially challenged children & young adult cancer patients across Canada.

The event has raised more than $130,000 since 2011 and donated over 4,000 inches of hair.

Hair Donation Ottawa was founded in 2011 by Helene Hutchings, who was diagnosed and successfully treated for cancer at The Ottawa Hospital in 2010.